RV: I can always tell if I’m going to like a person that I meet simply by knowing if they watched Community. It’s a show that was ahead of its time. Seriously, if it would have been released on Netflix, it would have dominated. It was just never broad enough for a major network, yet it…
Category: SitCom
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Season 2)
RV: When Kimmy Schmidt debuted, I was drawn to the show for the pure nostalgia of its 90s references. However, by the end of the first season, the show realized that the bunker gimmicks were quickly getting stale., and changed the focus to its real source of staying power—the characters. When I started to binge…
Love
RV: Being recently divorced and set adrift in my early 30s, I wanted to really attach myself to these characters. Right from the opening minutes, I knew this show was going to depict the reality of relationships and not the bullshit that Hollywood likes to feed us on a nightly basis. The truth that we…
Party Down (Seasons 1-2)
RV: For a time in college, I worked in the food service industry. I hated every minute of it, except for the irrelevant conversations I had with my friends/coworkers. Party Down is an over the top workplace comedy (See The Office, Parks and Rec, etc.), but Party Down also feels very real. Each character successfully toes the…
Red Vines and Twizzlers 